Your first car

[Warrior Poet]

1972 Dodge Challenger...Had a 318 Mopar ( IMSMC ), bucket seats, and rust everywhere. But, boy could that car MOVE!

Ah, Mopar. My brother-in-law owns a '71 Super Bee, and he's fixed it up so it looks really nice.

And that car cooks. DE-STROYS sections of highway. Riding in it is awesome, it feels powerful, even just idling at a light.

A friend of mine owned a '69 Camaro once, red, with black striping, Herst shifter, 4-on-the-floor, the works. He called it his "red lady," and I got to drive it once (the weekend it dropped it's drive train - not my fault!), and it doesn't actually start to run smooth UNTIL 70 mph, and then it glides, just screaming along the road.

The old muscle cars are truly a thing of beauty.

Warrior Poet

 

[Scotley]

My first car was a '65 Mustang which I started lovingly restoring at the age of 12. It had the 289 hi-po motor and was great fun, but I abused that car so bad. I think I drove for about 4 years before somebody told me you didn't have to push either the gas or the brakes to the floor all the time. I broke pretty much every moving part, and some that shouldn't, on that car at least once. I still have it in a barn waiting for the money to re-re-restore it.

While the Mustang was in disrepair I had a string of family cast off that I drove part time.

-A truely ugly yellow '78 jeep with a white detachable top, really big mud tires, no paint on the passenger side because the previous owner tipped it, and no mufflers. Another fun vehicle, but it tended to attract unwanted attention from law enforcement personel.

-The 'Tank' a 78 t-bird in a faded green that sorta looked like army drab after a while. That was a big ugly sucker too. A grandfather cast off.

-A white '77 cutlass supreme that was a mom cast off.

-A couple of ford ranger pickups one of which was a dad cast off.

The second Ranger was an extended cab that was my first real from the dealer 'new' car. Appearently, I've had better luck with fords than many of you. The '97 Ranger still runs great and in a bit of irony I cast it off to my dad instead of the other way around for a change.

Currently driving an '04 econobox--a toyota pretending to be a Pontiac called a vibe. Great mileage and lots of cool toys, but not nearly as much fun to drive as the V-8's I grew up on. I guess in this era of $2+ a gallon gas I can't complain.

 

[diaglo]

I had a 1972 Monte Carlo with the "Turbo-Hydramatic" transmission, 350 Short Block with 4 barrel carb under the hood. I can totally relate to the sudden disappearance of gas when the pedal hit the metal.

I miss that car so much.

i owned a 73 Chevy C10 with rust all over. replaced the bed and sides with wood.

traded it in for a 48 Studebaker Champion businessman's coupe. which i gave to my dad.

then bought a 71 Monte Carlo. mang, i loved that car. never should have sold it.

i have also purchased or acquired thru the years:
78 Ford Eline 300 Conversion Van
86 Buick Somerset
79 Chevy Camaro
85 Ford Escort
91 Isuzu Rodeo
88 Ford Escort GT
95 Infinit J30
and currently have a 97 Chevy C1500

 

[Thanee]

This still is my first car, running without any problems since July 1999.

Bye
Thanee

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

then bought a 71 Monte Carlo. mang, i loved that car. never should have sold it.

In January of 1987, a teenage kid drivng his daddy's super jacked up 4wheel drive pickup ran a stop sign and t-boned my Monte Carlo. It was totalled. If not for that, I'd have it to this day, as my buddy and I were going to trick it out as a show car.

I still hate that kid.

 

[diaglo]

In January of 1987, a teenage kid drivng his daddy's super jacked up 4wheel drive pickup ran a stop sign and t-boned my Monte Carlo. It was totalled. If not for that, I'd have it to this day, as my buddy and I were going to trick it out as a show car.

I still hate that kid.

mine got 8 miles to the gallon city and 10 miles to the gallon highway.

it had like a 7 foot front. you could climb inside.

i had the dual glassed packed mufflers.

racing slick tires.

and a 402 V8 6.6L

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

If for some reason a large sum of money falls from the sky into my life, I'm going to buy and rebuild a fleet of those cars.

 

[howandwhy99]

'87 maroon Renault Medallion. It was a 5-door.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

'87 maroon Renault Medallion. It was a 5-door.

LOL..that reminds me of something from when I was a kid. During the summer, I hauled hay (old school square bales, not the big round ones now) for spending money. Dirty, hot work. There was this guy whose pastures made so much hay every year he never had room in his barns because of leftover hay from the previous year.

He drove VW Beetles and Renaults...exclusively. He'd drive them until they died, then he'd park them behind his barns. Did you know you can get 7 bails of hay in a Renault sedan and 5 in a Beetle?

Knowledge is power.

 

[Threedub]

My first car was a 1977 Volvo 242. Drove it until 1997 or so. It used to be my dad's and I drove it extensively before it was "mine" -- the official handoff was when we got married in '94.

I had a 1970 Volvo 242. The dual carburetors caused me nothing but problems until I finally replaced it with a single.

It wasn't my first car though, that was a 1976 Toyota Corolla that cost $300. Ran great, was rust colored which was good since some of it was rusting, lost the liner in the top so that the roof was "sticky" with the glue that used to hold the liner up, which basically made a 3M pad out of the whole ceiling.